Club Captains Report

CLUB CAPTAIN// By Esther Smith

Well 2020 is here and I have decided that the club needs a mantra for this year and the mantra is all about exercise, no!! not for yourself for your cars, cars need exercise!!. If like me you have found that your clothes shrink when they are left hanging in the wardrobe, and combined with the old adage “use it or lose it” it’s the same for our vehicles, our cars need to be regularly aired and exercised to keep them running sweet and fit as a fiddle. This is no time for halfhearted new year’s resolutions why have these cars mouldering away in the garage hardly used, when so many opportunities abound to get them out and give them some exercise, show them off around town, let the kids see them being used, bring them along to the clubrooms on a Tuesday morning for a good tyre kicking session. We are lucky in Hawkes Bay that the area is so often a rally destination for all sorts of motoring groups, therefore older cars are accepted as part of the streetscape, people do really respond well to seeing them out and about. Throughout the year the VCC both nationally and at branch level, put on a wide variety of rallies and runs all advertised in Beaded Wheels or on the national website, many are organised by VCC branches just a couple of hours drive from home. So why not make it your mantra for the year to get out enjoy using your vehicles, give them regular exercise by attending the variety of local events the branch organises and also aim to partake in at least one event outside of Hawke’s Bay. If you haven’t previously attended events at other branches and are not sure how it all works, put the word out, we could get a group together. On to other matters: By the time you read this article we will have had another “Steve’s Big Day Out” on Sunday January 19th we were unable to attend but it sounded interesting and would have been a great day out. There are a lot of events on in HB and it is not long now until Art deco Weekend the biggest of them all. We are winding up to our annual Art Deco rally, the format is tweaked slightly each year but we have it running pretty smoothly now. Volunteers are required for assisting with parking at various times from Thursday evening to Sunday morning, if you can help please give our parking co-coordinator Steve Donovan a call, or you might just get press ganged anyway. Volunteers are also needed elsewhere, if you can help on Saturday morning for the morning tea give me a call, and for the Sunday morning breakfast give Lesley and Malcolm Blair a call COMING EVENTS: Upcoming events are: • Wednesday 5th February –Mid week run meet at the club rooms and Committee night • Wednesday 12th February –Club Night • Thursday 20th>Sunday 23rd February –Art Deco Rally and Events • Friday 28th February –Kitchen Night Looking forward to seeing you all out and about exercising those cars !!